Please explain the outstanding contributions of the nominee during the month of nomination

I would like to nominate Marissa Williams, Residential Life Coordinator,
as the Residential Life staff member of the month for April. Marissa
has been with us for just over 6 months now and has immediately made an
impact on our staff. She is constantly volunteering her time to anyone
who needs it and takes on new projects without any type of prompting
from anyone. One example of this was her leadership in hosting and
planning a End of the Year banquet for our Peer Advisors ("RAs"). Our
department had not done anything like this for our student staff in the
past couple of years and Marissa took in upon herself to make sure that
the staff was properly recognized for all the hard work that they have
shown over the past year even though it was originally planned not to
occur. Marissa completely made the banquet her own and got professional
staff to dress up as old Hollywood characters in support of the theme
she created for the event. When everyone got to the event, it was
totally decked out in Old Hollywood theme including a photo booth and
decorations that really made it feel glamorous. During and after the
event all I heard from my staff was how fun the event was and how nice
it felt to be appreciated by the department.This really is just one
example of the many things that Marissa does on a regular basis to make
people feel recognized both in our department and on campus in general.
Whether it is volunteering to lead focus groups for our new
upperclassmen community, or jumping in at any event she attends to lend
a helping hand, Marissa has become an invaluable asset to our
department. On a professional staff level, Marissa is also planning a
"hello to summer" event for just us coordinators to get to mingle since
we don't often have the chance to do during the rush of the school year.
I know that I can always count on Marissa to have a smile on her face
and can trust to her to complete any task that is given to her. This is
even more amazing given this is Marissa's first "professional" position
out of graduate school. Whether it is dealing and caring for sick
residents (one of which who needed constant care given his seizure
episodes) like she had to do a lot this month or coming up with new
ideas for us to do as a department, Marissa ALWAYS gives 110% and this
month particularly exemplifies what it meant to be an awesome
professional staff member!